Customs officials on the German-Swiss border at Rheinheim have detained two East Europeans on suspicion of smuggling up to 21 pianos into Germany.
The pianos, which were second-hand, had estimated values of up to 10,000 Euros.
Are we feeling safer now?
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i do need one ! do you have any email of them ?
Must have been difficult to get them in your hand luggage!
In hand luggage presumably?
“Hey, Ollie… I know how we can fool the customs agents.”
“How’s that, Stan?”
“We hide the piano… in a can marked ‘sardines’!”
There used to be some good old Bösendorfers in DDR. Just ask Dag Achatz. 😉
Do you mean 10,000 EUR for all 10?
What does “up to mean 21”? Crime reporting should produce an exact number for pianos, especially if they were grands.
What idiot took that photo of the piano with the lid opened incorrectly? must have been a smuggler?
A fully extended lid plus the stick in the wrong place doesn’t generate a feeling of safety…
So true!
“Are we feeling safer now?”
At the risk of starting the obvious, this was presumably to do with tax or duty avoidance rather than security concerns.
Sounds like GRAND larceny to me!